An ordinary house near the Gongyuan, the yard has already been cleaned up, Xu Qingtang is in the temporary study, directing the little servant to sort out the books he brought, and Xu Xuan accompanies him.

Xu Yu felt bored sitting down, came out and stood at the door, and saw a young man carrying a burden, shouting along the street: "Yellow sand, red sand, three white and black skin!" It can not only cool off the heat, but also quench thirst, and also quench alcohol! Auntie, can you have a taste? Five pennies and one lotus petal, a bite is full of honey. ”

The white-haired lady took a pot in front of her, raised a wooden spoon and pointed at him, and sneered: "The sour plum soup I sell, rare for your melons?"

"Hey, hey." The young merchant smiled and walked away.

"Come here." Xu Yu beckoned to him, "Pick two sweet ones, cut them and send them in." ”

"Okay!" The guy selling watermelons happily walked over and put down his burden.

The trivial matters are taken care of by the flower farmer and others, Xu Yu smiled at him and walked towards the opposite side.

The lady sitting in front of the door immediately beckoned: "Guests, please try my family's sour plum soup, who doesn't know that in the past, the Qiu family was the first in the capital in Qinhuai River?"

"Have a bowl." Xu Yu said with a smile.

"Wait a minute." The eldest lady lifted the lid of the pot and said while scooping the soup: "The sour plum brewed by the old woman herself, boiled with good rock sugar, mixed with roses, wood and ice water, eat a bowl to ensure that you are 100 times more energetic."

Xu Yu took the bowl, tasted it, it was really delicious, and praised: "Its cool and vibrating teeth, good taste!" But why is your business so bleak, aunt?"

The eldest lady who has read more than half a hundred years said with a wry smile: "It's not a secret, my family really earned a lot of money in the early years, which sister on the Qinhuai River didn't order my family's sour plum soup?" Later, the deceased husband was blinded by lard, and he was clamoring to go back to his hometown to open a hotel, but he left within a few years, and his son and daughter-in-law were not good at management, and his old body was also a lot older. ”

"Oh." Xu Yu nodded, paid twice the money, and walked back to look at the Qinhuai River in the distance amid the eldest lady's repeated thanks.

The river was like a cloud, and there were many women in the cabin, but they couldn't see clearly. The shops on the shore are thriving, and the small traders are in full swing selling watermelons and peaches, as well as side dishes, tofu, and even beef, crowding each other with tourists, and there are a few word-measuring stalls on the roadside.

Suddenly, the flower farmer led a white-faced scholar over and said, "Master, this is the son of the owner of the house, studying in the county."

"Late Wu Daiyun has seen Brother Xu." The scholar gave a respectful salute.

"Under Xu Yu, meet Brother Ren." Xu Yu also bowed his hand politely.

Xu Yu didn't know that this scholar named Wu Daiyun, his father's name was Wu Biyan, originally from Linjiang Mansion, Jiangxi, Hongwu moved to Jinling in the twelfth year, and with the family's status in his hometown, he sought to grant the Shangyuan County Clerk's Office that had not entered the stream.

Later, he spent hundreds of taels of silver to become a county river official on a tributary of the Qinhuai River, backed by the priest's office, managed dozens of flower boats in the river, and collected the so-called pollen tax.

However, it is too close to the Qinhuai River, which is the first in the world, and the magnet effect, he is in charge of some old and decrepit prostitutes, and this lack of children can't make any money at all. Fortunately, he is also a person with a head and face in the local area, and there are a few people under him who are on errands, and they can do anything as soon as they call out, which is much better than being a bookseller.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft water, Wu Biyan is good in this life, in order to summon four women, and often change them when he is tired of playing, nominally to serve his wife, sons, and daughters, but in fact, he keeps it for his own use.

Every day, I eat the wine and food that the flower boat salutes, hug the baby, and cut it down night and night. Among them, there is a girl who has just turned sixteen, named Sister Qian, who looks very good, and has learned a lot of flattery, Wu Biyan is the most proud of her.

But people in their forties, their energy is limited, and Sister Qian is young and excessive, and gradually Wu Biyan will inevitably be unable to cope with it. Although the father is no longer good, the son is energetic, Wu Daiyun is a child, and he is most familiar with "having something to do with the disciples".

eyebrows, ** It doesn't matter if you are a father and son or not, Wu Daiyun and Sister Qian quickly got into a hot fight. One day, the two were turning clouds and rain, and they were bumped into by Wu Biyan, who was returning home halfway, and they were so angry that they beat them up.

kicked Sister Qian out, Wu Biyan thought about it, his son was at home all day, and it was not good after all, so he ordered Wu Daiyun to go into the city and look at the house in the city and study.

Xu Yu and Wu Daiyun chatted, although they didn't know the bottom line, they could gradually find that the other party's words were frivolous, their eyes wandered, and whenever they passed by a woman with a good figure, their eyes couldn't help but chase after others.

At first glance, he was not a serious person, so Xu Yu was impatient, and reluctantly chatted for a while, deducing that his grandfather was worried, said goodbye, and turned around and went back.

Wu Daiyun watched him leave with a regretful expression, but he didn't notice it, what is his identity, what is his identity, he can talk for a long time when he meets for the first time, and he is already very lucky.

As soon as he turned around, he walked into the house next door, surnamed Sun, a native of Yuyao Town, Shaoxing Prefecture. Speaking of which, the Yuyao Sun family was a first-class Jiangnan family in the Ming Dynasty, known as "the Henghe Sun family, 800 gauze hats", that is to say, a big family, more than 800 people above the show.

However, the Yuyao Sun clan completely arose a few decades later, and now there is only one Jinshi in the family.

The surname Sun has always been one of the big surnames in China, and the Sun family in Yuyao alone has long been scattered, and now the male population is about 4,000 people, and the farthest ones live in Yunnan, Guangxi, like Suzhou, Wujiang, Jinling and other places, there are clansmen.

This Sun family is in business, his wife Shi gave birth to the first son Sun Jiang, the concubine Li gave birth to the eldest daughter Sun Huixin, and the second concubine Ren gave birth to the youngest daughter Huiruo.

Yuyao Sun clan is different from the traditional Jiangnan family, the ancestor is the Later Tang Dynasty Zhongchen, the famous general Sun Yue, Yuyao's hometown has the tomb of General Sun, and the children and grandchildren stay in order to guard the tomb.

After turmoil, adhering to the family style, most of the Sun clan have practiced martial arts since childhood, and have been farming for a living for generations, and the whole family is poor.

It is said that the sixth generation of the clan became monks, only had the opportunity to read and write, in addition to learning Buddhist scriptures, but also specialized in Confucian classics, and later their parents died, returned to their hometown to bury their parents, and married to guard the tomb for three years. During this period, he gathered his nephews and the children of the clan to teach the Analects, Mencius, the Book of Songs, and the Book of Rites, so that the Sun family gradually became a scholarly family.

In the Song Dynasty, after nearly 200 years of continuous accumulation and painstaking management of seven or eight generations, the Sun family finally became one of the famous families in Yuyao County at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, during the Yuan Dynasty, Yiqiē returned to the original point, and it was also the Sun family's reluctance to work for other races, and the imperial court did not allow the people of Jiangnan to read and write, and the whole clan became a group of illiterate farmers.

But it is precisely because of this that the old Comrade Zhu, who is annoyed that the Jiangnan people are hostile to him, frequently ordered the relocation of the major noble families in the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry and the rich entered Beijing, and the Sun family was lucky not to be on the list.

Today's Sun family has restored the grand occasion of every household's recitation, and the children of the clan have not forgotten to farm and practice martial arts, and the long-standing family reputation has made the clan have a strong cohesion, and the fierce clan style of literature and martial arts has made the Sun family once again form a strong local clan force, and has a high social prestige in the south of the Yangtze River, even in the whole country, it has a considerable reputation, which makes the Sun family have the conditions to go to the peak.

Later generations commented: "Yao Jiang Wang clan, Xianyu king, grandson"; There is also the praise of "for more than 200 years, there is only one in the country".

Therefore, in such a revived noble family, the children of the clan can be officials, soldiers, farmers, and small traders, but they are not allowed to become merchants. The Jinling Sun family can be said to have violated the taboo in the clan, so they were removed from the family and expelled from Yuyao by the whole family.

Master Sun also changed his name because of this, but his son still named Sun Jiang according to the genealogy for the sake of the future, and the Sun family who was the first to pass the Jinshi examination was named Sun Hong, who was the current imperial historian and his nephew according to his generation.

Many large clans in the Ming Dynasty were influenced by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it was popular to take names according to the radicals of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was a change.

(Having said so much nonsense, because the new book is probably related to Yuyao Sun's family, Xiao Hai, who has learned the hard way, has decided to give it a go.) )

On the side of King Mu's mansion, Aunt Shen went to Hongwen's room, first compensated for Mei Nu, and then persuaded Hongwen to apologize to his wife.

Hongwen knew that her aunt was invited by the master, but for a while, she was hesitant and unwilling to give in for the sake of face. After Aunt Shen's repeated persuasion, she agreed along the steps and came to the upper room together.

Du Qianqian didn't speak, Hongwen took the initiative to kowtow and said, "It's all the slave's fault, please forgive me."

Aunt Shen was helping her play a round on the side, Du Qianqian's face gradually looked better, after all, she was her own girl for many years, almost like a mother and daughter, and said: "Think about the appearance of no one in your eyes, should you?" Now that you know that you regret it, I have nothing to do, but I ask you to change your ways from now on, and not to commit the madness of that day again. ”

"Oops! Mrs. is really generous. Aunt Shen smiled and complimented, seeing that her wife was not annoyed, she took the opportunity to open the ear door.

said a few funny jokes, and Hongwen also carefully accompanied her, waiting for his wife to comb her hair and change clothes. Du Qianqian's anger completely disappeared, and she left them to eat together.

Half an hour later, Aunt Shen saw that her wife had recovered as usual, and she and Hongwen withdrew with confidence and went back to their rooms. After she finished dealing with today's affairs, she forced Mei Nu to go to the upper room and Hongwen's room to ask for guilt one by one.

Let's talk about Du Qianqian's side first, she is not angry with the slave, and it doesn't matter whether she comes or not, but it's just a formality. As for Hongwen, because she kowtowed, she had to ask Mei Nu to go over, which made Hongwen's face passable.

In short, in this matter, Aunt Shen handled it exquisitely, who wouldn't praise her? Completely compared Hongwen to it.

Mei Nu came to apologize, which made Hongwen so helpless, even if she didn't want to, she had to go to Aunt Shen's room to express her gratitude.

Is it really the end? Even a man who is generous by nature will remember it in his heart, and he will forget it with time, and a woman who is scheming by nature will not forget it even if she is killed, and she will have a problem from now on.

Whether it is whether Hongwen hates Aunt Shen for pretending to be a good person, or Aunt Shen prevents her from retaliating, even Du Qianqian treats Hongwen differently than in the past. Whenever she encounters a disagreement and doesn't give a good face, Du Qianqian is worried that if she is a little indulgent, she will revert to her old state with the favored Hongwen, and once she loses her majesty at that time, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to restrain her.

Probably only Mu Ang really thought that the inner house was calm, and he was very happy, and went to Aunt Shen's room, thanked her for her virtue, and praised her for being good at mediation.

Aunt Shen smiled, and said with a meaningful smile: "I can't afford your thanks, just don't blame me, I'm already lucky."

"How so?" Mu Ang smiled.

"Tonight, then?" Aunt Shen said softly, her eyes wandered in an instant, and her style was infinite.

Mu Ang laughed and said, "Naturally, I did my best for my husband and died."

Besides, Wu Daiyun entered the Sun family and came to find his friend Shen Tao, who is naturally also a descendant of the famous Shen family in Jiangnan.

The Shen family also has a long history, and the ancestors of the Sun family are one of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty, and the descendants of the surname Ji are also because the small country was destroyed by the big country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the descendants took the country as their surname.

During the Warring States Period, the Qin State implemented the Shang Dynasty Reform Law, and the Shen family took refuge in the south of the Yangtze River. Later, one of them migrated to Wucheng, that is, Shebu Township, Huzhou, Zhejiang, which was the ancestor of the Wuxing tribe of the Shen family.

The most famous is Shen Kuo, who is the author of "Mengxi Writings", which is said to be the seventieth ancestor of the Shen family.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng entrenched in the land of Sanwu and sent the people as soldiers. Shen Ziwen, the patriarch of the eightieth Shen clan, brought his clansmen to live in seclusion in the nearby county town of Wujiang.

But in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, in the end, the whole clan was disgusted with the rich Zhu Yuanzhang, and issued an order to conquer Danwei in southwest Guangxi. Of course, it may have nothing to do with it, anyway, the Shen clan was split up.

The Wujiang Shen clan has been in the army in Nandanwei for many years, and it was transferred to Maoshanwei in Zhending Mansion during the Hongxi period. Among them, Shen Tao's elder brother Shen Hao, who is tall and strong, has a good appearance, and was elected as the general of the Han Dynasty in front of the palace, and moved his family to Jinling.

The life of the Shen family began to get better, and they had money to support their younger brother Shen Tao, and their son Shen Jing and others to study.

A few years ago, Shen Hao, who was in his forties, accidentally stabbed a colleague during drills, causing serious injuries, and was removed from his military service and released to his hometown.

For a family like the Shen family, this punishment is not a curse but a blessing, so the whole family happily packed their bags and returned to their hometown by boat after many years of absence.

Shen Jing is the second son of Shen Hao, who is diligent and thrifty, good at managing his family, repaired a house for rent in the county, and kept buying land outside the city. So he built a "Lansheng Building" and collected a lot of books, hoping that his children and grandchildren would be able to read the imperial examination and revitalize the lintel of the Shen family.

And his elder brother probably thought that he could inherit his father's military position, call friends in the capital, and he was used to being idle, and he would not live when he returned to his hometown, and the family business gradually declined, but fortunately, his son could go to his brother's private school for free.

Interestingly, it was probably because the brothers were rich and poor that in the next generation, Shen Jing's son finally lived up to expectations and became a four-year tribute student in Chenghua, that is, a publicly-funded college student guaranteed by the local government.

Although he failed to pass the Jinshi examination, it also made Wu Xing Shen restore the style of poetry and book courtesy.

Brother Shen Jing gave birth to four sons, especially the eldest son Shen Kui, because of the family's experience, he studied hard since he was a child, and he was filial piety, and the four brothers lived together all their lives, supported each other, brothers and brothers, and were praised by the villagers.

Although he didn't have the money to take the road of the imperial examination, in such a poor environment, he gave Shen Kui a lot of life insights, his words did not lose his moment, and his poetry style was ancient, close to the Han and Wei dynasties, and he became a generation of people in the folk literary circle, and he was the first to open a literature of the Shen family in Wujiang.

After Shen Kui's death, Zhou Yong, the official of Shangshu, personally wrote an epitaph for him. In the early years of Jiajing, the imperial court gave his son Shen Han as the criminal department to give the matter, and the Shen family moved towards revitalization. (To be continued......)